﻿PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  MALACOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  115 
  

  

  2. 
  " 
  On 
  Piirtheuogeiiesis 
  in 
  Paludestrina 
  jenkinsi." 
  Bv 
  Dr. 
  A. 
  E. 
  

   Hoycott, 
  E.R.S. 
  

  

  •i. 
  "Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Molhisca 
  of 
  Lord 
  Howe 
  Ishuul." 
  By 
  Tom 
  

   Iredale. 
  

  

  OBDINARY 
  MEETING. 
  

   Friday, 
  13th 
  June, 
  1919. 
  

   G. 
  K. 
  GuDE, 
  F.Z.S., 
  President, 
  in 
  the 
  Chair. 
  

   M. 
  Paul 
  Pallary 
  was 
  elected 
  to 
  membership 
  of 
  the 
  Society. 
  

   Mr. 
  A. 
  S. 
  Kennard 
  exhibited 
  a 
  copy 
  of 
  the 
  quarto 
  edition 
  of 
  tlie 
  

   Taiikerville 
  Collection 
  of 
  Shells, 
  published 
  in 
  1825. 
  

  

  The 
  Secretary 
  exhibited, 
  on 
  behalf 
  of 
  Mr. 
  E. 
  F. 
  Wesley, 
  

   a 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Sale 
  of 
  the 
  Adamson 
  Collection 
  of 
  Shells 
  in 
  

   March, 
  1848, 
  priced 
  by 
  Lovell 
  Reeve. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  communications 
  were 
  read: 
  — 
  

  

  1. 
  "On 
  Ammonites 
  navicuJa 
  (Mantell)." 
  By 
  the 
  late 
  G. 
  C. 
  

   Crick, 
  F.G.S. 
  

  

  2. 
  "On 
  a 
  Sandstone 
  cast 
  of 
  Aturia 
  atari 
  {H-dnturoi) 
  from 
  the 
  

   Miocene 
  of 
  Western 
  Australia." 
  By 
  K. 
  Bullen 
  Newton, 
  F.G.S. 
  ■ 
  

  

  3. 
  " 
  On 
  the 
  Generic 
  Names 
  for 
  the 
  two 
  British 
  Ellobiidae 
  [olim 
  

   Auriculidae] 
  myosotis, 
  Draparuaud 
  { 
  = 
  denticid(ita, 
  Montagu) 
  and 
  

   lidentaia, 
  Montagu." 
  By 
  A. 
  S. 
  Kennard, 
  F.G.S., 
  and 
  B. 
  B. 
  

   Woodward, 
  F.L.S. 
  

  

  4. 
  "On 
  the 
  Molhisca 
  of 
  Marsascirocco 
  Harbour, 
  Malta." 
  By 
  

   G. 
  Despott. 
  

  

  5. 
  "Notes 
  on 
  Polyplacophora 
  (Part 
  II)." 
  By 
  Tom 
  Iredale. 
  

  

  OBITUARY 
  NOTICES. 
  

   Henry 
  Suter 
  (1841 
  (?)-1918). 
  

   Henry 
  Suter, 
  who 
  joined 
  this 
  Society 
  in 
  1894, 
  was 
  born 
  in 
  Zurich, 
  

   and 
  educated 
  at 
  tlie 
  University 
  there. 
  He 
  started 
  in 
  life 
  as 
  an 
  

   analytical 
  chemist, 
  but 
  his 
  father, 
  who 
  was 
  proprietor 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  soap 
  

   works 
  in 
  the 
  city, 
  wished 
  him 
  to 
  conduct 
  the 
  business, 
  and 
  on 
  his 
  

   father's 
  death 
  he 
  did 
  so 
  for 
  a 
  few 
  years, 
  subsequently 
  selling 
  the 
  

   business 
  and 
  reverting 
  to 
  chemistry. 
  

  

  In 
  1886 
  or 
  1887, 
  on 
  the 
  advice 
  of 
  a 
  friend 
  of 
  his 
  boyhood. 
  

   Dr. 
  Heusler, 
  of 
  Auckland, 
  some 
  time 
  Government 
  geologist 
  of 
  New 
  

   Zealand, 
  Suter 
  migrated 
  to 
  that 
  country 
  and 
  took 
  up 
  bush 
  land 
  near 
  

   Eketahuna. 
  Relinquishing 
  farming, 
  he 
  spent 
  some 
  time 
  in 
  Christ- 
  

   church 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  Mount 
  Cook 
  Hermitage. 
  Thence 
  he 
  went 
  to 
  

   Auckland, 
  and 
  was 
  appointed 
  lionorary 
  curator 
  of 
  the 
  Museum 
  there, 
  

   while 
  Mr. 
  T. 
  F. 
  Cheesman, 
  the 
  permanent 
  curator, 
  was 
  preparing 
  

   a 
  work 
  on 
  New 
  Zealand 
  Plants. 
  Thereafter 
  he 
  appears 
  to 
  have 
  

   ^•esided 
  alternately 
  at 
  Christchurch 
  and 
  Auckland. 
  (See 
  Lyttleton 
  

   'Times, 
  2nd 
  August, 
  1918.) 
  

  

  Suter 
  was 
  devoted 
  to 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  natural 
  history 
  all 
  his 
  years, 
  

   especially 
  conchology, 
  whicli 
  formed 
  his 
  life's 
  work. 
  In 
  Zurich 
  he 
  

  

  